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Classifying Bets & Raises Part 2 - The Risk-Reward Approach - CardSharpIn this series I discuss how bets and raises are classified, and the thinking behind determining if a given bet or raise is correct. Part 1 As you’ll recall from last article, there is a well defined system for classifying calls as correct or incorrect using odds math. That math essentially analyzes three relevant facts: How much money you win if your call works (ie. you hit your draw, or have the best hand already) ($win)How much you lose if your call doesn’t work ($lose)How likely your call is to work (P(win)) At that point the expectation for the call is easy to calculate:

(Simple?) 3-bet Scenario - High Stakes Poker Pot Limit and No Limit - High Stakes Poker ForumSince the dude is good and aggressive we're assuming he's capable of CRing AI with a lot of stuff on the flop and could possible be slowplaying a monster right now. Anyways, as to the answer to your "How much does it matter" question I think we'd have to look at 1) how likley am I to fold a better hand when I flop nothing? 2) how likely am I to get called/raised by a worst hand if I flop something? Now, with A2 and KJ a "missed flop" would consist of all little cards (or some variant of Q52 or something) and if we C-bet in these positions we are unlikely to fold QQ-66 from a smart/thinking player. However, if 88 or 75s misses the flop (like say AQ4) and then we C-bet, we are more likely to fold better hands such as JJ-66 and of course we will fold if we get CR'd all in (which we would have done with A2s and KJo anyways). Now let's say we flop a BIG hand with these hands, which one is most likely to get paid off?

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life with face cardswhen a player moves all in and the dealer says “all you can eat” for the 14th time… @MicrostakesHero suggestion -Joeingram1Life as an Online MTT Pro(After you read this post, you might want to check out my follow-up to it here.) I tell a lot of people not to play large-field online MTTs for a living. I’ve always thought that the variance is just way too high for most professionals to trust their livelihood (and sanity) to large-field MTTs instead of cash, smaller-field MTTs, or STTs. But, admittedly, I’ve given this advice without any direct evidence to back it up. I’ve been meaning for a while to see what the numbers say, and this post will be a tentative first step.